These aren’t great days for NASA. Having made the headlines a few months ago with a love triangle turned attempted murder, now comes the revelation that one NASA worker deliberately sabotaged a computer scheduled for use in space while an…
Cool story of a dog who played hero today. When a rattlesnake tried to put the bite on a one-year-old kid, Grandma’s Chihuahua “Zoey” pulled the old Secret Service manuever, jumping into the snake’s path and taking the bites herself…
Superman is never so busy saving the Earth that he can’t stop to tutor you on the alphabet.
Another typical day in New York, as a man attacks a peacock in a Burger King parking lot in the belief it is actually a vampire. Hey, makes perfect sense to me.
Over the weekend we journeyed to Ohio for Laura’s mom’s wedding, and became some of the first passengers of the recently launched Skybus airline. We got our seats for a whopping $10 each, which had me imagining a Korean War-vintage…
Although this clip has a bit of age on it now (it was taken over a year ago), it’s one of my favorites as it captures perfectly the relationship of Jason and Scott, who each will try any stupid thing…
I turned up a neat quote today on what it’s like to have sons: “A boy is a magical creature. You can lock him out of your workshop, but you can’t lock him out of your heart. You can get…
Well, the back yard is finally shaping up for us. Last fall we had some guys come in and clear out the woods, taking down about 100 trees and tons of brush, roots and stumps, then bringing in some fill…
Yesterday a gunman took 32 lives at Virginia Tech in what they’re calling the worst such shooting spree in history. For now, anyway. Every day I work on a university campus with a lot of young people very much like…
What with all the warm weather and sunshine lately, we decided to buy some plantings for the yard a couple weekends ago. Laura and the boys had fun adding flowers to the various beds and things were looking better than…
